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   still waters don't forget by Anonymous

   Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, DCU (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   11 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne
   • Dick Grayson & Justice League
   • Dick Grayson & Tony Zucco
   • Dick Grayson
   • Bruce Wayne
   • Tony Zucco
   • Justice League (DCU)
   • (bc of tag limit I can't include all members but it's the original line-up: Bruce Clark Diana Hal Barry J'onn Arthur)
   • Alternate Universe - Pirate
   • Alternative Universe - Mers
   • Merperson Dick Grayson
   • Pirate Bruce Wayne
   • Pirate Tony Zucco
   • Dead John Grayson and Mary Grayson
   • Bruce Wayne is Batman
   • Dick Grayson Needs a Hug
   • Hurt Dick Grayson
   • Dick Grayson is Not Okay
   • Traumatized Dick Grayson
   • Pirates
   • Emotional Manipulation
   • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
   • Heavy Angst
   • Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con
   • Power Imbalance
   • Trauma
   • Touch-Starved
   • Touch-Starved Dick Grayson
   • Dick Grayson Whump
   • Dick Grayson Has Abandonment Issues
   • Non-Consensual Touching
   • Non-Consensual Kissing
   • Non-Consensual Groping
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • POV Dick Grayson
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Flashbacks
   • NOW ONTO THE GOOD TAGS HEHE
   • Bruce Wayne is Good With Kids
   • Good Parent Bruce Wayne
   • Dick Grayson & Bruce Wayne Bonding
   • Bruce Wayne Loves Dick Grayson
   • Father-Son Relationship
   • Fluff
   • Eventual Fluff
   • Family Fluff
   • Fluff and Hurt/Comfort
   • LOOK I KNOW THIS FIC LOOKS DARK BUT I SWEAR IT WILL GET BETTER EVENTUALLY SDKufyhSJKF
   • DUNNO HOW MANY CHAPS THIS WILL BE BUT I PROMISE THAT THIS WILL HAVE A HAPPY ENDING
   • ALL THOSE DARK TAGS AND TRIGGERS ARE ONLY FOR THE FIRST CHAP I SWEAR
   • Dick Grayson Meets the Justice League
   • Bruce Wayne is Dick Grayson's Parent
   • Unreliable Narrator Dick Grayson
   • Dick Grayson Angst
   • Misunderstandings
   • Past Rape/Non-con
   • TAGS MAY CHANGE (mainly bc of the 75 tag limit 😭)
   • Dark Bruce Wayne
   • mainly bc Bruce kills in this AU and uses guns
   • nothing graphic or anything just a lil heads-up lol and tbf this IS a pirate Bruce au sshdyfj lol
   • Fear of Rape
   • Diana (Wonder Woman) & Clark Kent & Bruce Wayne Friendship
   • AI BE SCREWED NO ONE CAN TAKE AWAY MY EM DASHES (—) SIHKUGJSDJF
   • Protective Bruce Wayne
   • Justice League as Family (DCU)
   • Good Grandparent Alfred Pennyworth
   • POV Bruce Wayne
   • Loving Parent Bruce Wayne
   • Eventual Happy Ending
   • Self-Blaming Dick Grayson

   Summary

   Dick’s blood froze as he stared at the advancing man in numb horror. The panic from before curdled into something colder—dread. Terror. His throat clamped shut like a vice, air catching halfway up his windpipe. His muscles locked so tight it felt like invisible hands were squeezing the life out of him—the truth settling over him like a cold, suffocating weight.

   This man wasn’t Zucco. The Captain wasn’t here, and Dick had woken up in an unfamiliar bed.

   Bile rose in his throat.

   There was only one explanation.

   He had been sold.

   And the man in front of him... was his new owner:

   The Batman.

   (in other words, Bruce is an emotionally constipated pirate who finds a small, terrified mer and thinks yeah, i should adopt him.)

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   Series

   • Part 1 of my DC aquatic-themed aus

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